Seemingly trivial things that annoy you

Peddle Up!

Cubic wrote:

The man who does the announcements on the X-Factor.

Actually, the X-Factor. :evil:

Peddle Up!

Peddle Up! wrote:

fatbabyjake wrote:

People (I'm assuming those guilty of the second one) who don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom. The amount of times i've been in a stall and heard others flush and then walk straight back out into the office beggars belief.

This is one of mine too, but I'd grade it as very important. How can anyone be so gross? :?

Who are these filthy feckers?

ben@31

The youth of today. Annoying.

Not are herds of them congregating outside the door of my local Tesco, for no reason like sheep.

But now when I go to a busy Statbucks. 13 of them are sat inside and only 2 bought drinks. While genuine customers have nowhere to sit.

The one annoying me the most is the one who' dresses like Marilyn Manson wearing his hood up inside Starbucks, it's not raining inside !

When I was a youth I was at the girlfriends house, the pub, cinema or the rugby club. The doorway of Tescos never appealed to me.

finchy

Those Argos adverts with the crap aliens.

seanoconn

johnfinch wrote:

Those Argos adverts with the crap aliens.

Too true. I blame the crap aliens for Argos's decline.

finchy

seanoconn wrote:

johnfinch wrote:

Those Argos adverts with the crap aliens.

Too true. I blame the crap aliens for Argos's decline.

I blame the crap catalogues full of crap goods (watches excepted) for Argos's decline.

If they'd gone a bit further upmarket they might have been able to afford the meerkats or even Mr T.

CiB

This track cycling at Glasgow on the box as we speak. Who's the brain-dead oaf who decided that what a velodrome really needs is a booming sound system and a hyper-excited announcer.

And whoever decided that that the cleverest thing to do with this PA system would be to play pop songs at full blast as abbreviations to the on-track business needs a slap.

Blacktemplar

CiB wrote:

This track cycling at Glasgow on the box as we speak. Who's the brain-dead oaf who decided that what a velodrome really needs is a booming sound system and a hyper-excited announcer.

And whoever decided that that the cleverest thing to do with this PA system would be to play pop songs at full blast as abbreviations to the on-track business needs a slap.

It's the same diseae afflicting rugby grounds across the nation. No more the polite applause reserved for a penalty/try/conversion, but a brain-scrambling piece of spurious musical p1sh. Had the same at the Velodrome for the elimination.

I liked the response of The ShedHeads at Gloucester - "play that shytt and we won't come to the game" - worked a treat.

CanalRider

My kids inability to put things into the dishwasher. And when they finally do, they stack everything up so nothing gets clean.
My kids inability to pair socks.
My family setting sky to record two things at once (Vampire Diaries and Grimm), fucking off to bed, leaving me not being able to use the Sky box.
People not using indicators at roundabouts.
Cryptic crosswords - I can't do 'em
'This website uses cookies' warnings
When you post is the last one on a page

Simmotino

2Phat4Rapha wrote:

Charlie "If you like", Stayte....

Aaarrrrggggh, that man!...

Cross your leg without touching yourself up!
Use the loop on the back of your tie for the tail - that's what it's there for!
Stop pulling your fekkin' jacket every time you move!

Please BBC, PLEASE, sack 'im!

Ginjafro

The Health Lottery Advert - "We won the 'ealth Lo'ery"..... Aaaaagh, you know the advert with the "criminal mugshot" (real) winners who all won £100,000 Pahnds (Cockney accent) and bought brilliant life changing fings like a Mob'ility Scoo'ta. Salt of the earth, fek me!

MaxwellBygraves

The way Tony Blair (although he's not the only one) responds to any question with 'Look...'

And the fact he's a murderous war criminal. Although that is somewhat less trivial.

crispybug2

When having an argument/discussion with someone and with you having won the day they then respond with "Yeah....but.." and plough on regardless with the same ill-imformed opinion!!

de_sisti

Use of the phrase: At the end of the day. Ultimately, sounds better imo.

finchy

Baked beans on toast with no butter on the toast. I want butter.

And when I say butter, I don't mean margarine or olive f**king oil spread. I mean butter. It comes out of a cow if that's any help to you.

pollys_bott

It's broad daylight. You're driving a vehicle the size of a small tank. You are visible hundreds of yards away. What possible reason could there be for having your headlights on?

You've just come round that roundabout signalling right, but you've gone left / straight on. WTF??!!

No, fog lights do not make you look cool, or like a rally driver - there's not even any mist. Why are they on?

David Beckham. Who gives a sh!t if he leaves LA Galaxy?

Alex Ferguson chewing gum. With his mouth open. You're an old man FFS, why act like some 12 year old scrote hanging around the chip shop?

Commercial radio stations that play the same 15 songs four times a day and have items like "David Beckham has threatened to stop flying with British Airways" as their news headlines (also see above).

I feel much better now, thankyou... :-)

ben@31

Pollys Bott wrote:

It's broad daylight. You're driving a vehicle the size of a small tank. You are visible hundreds of yards away. What possible reason could there be for having your headlights on? )

1. Poor light conditions
2. Poor weather
3. Dark coloured car
4. Dark drab background
5. Low sun

Scandinavian cars use daytime running lights.

Sorry I disagree with you, if some car has attracted your attention with its lights on, surely that's a good thing.

pollys_bott

ben@31 wrote:

Pollys Bott wrote:

It's broad daylight. You're driving a vehicle the size of a small tank. You are visible hundreds of yards away. What possible reason could there be for having your headlights on? )

1. Poor light conditions
2. Poor weather
3. Dark coloured car
4. Dark drab background
5. Low sun

Scandinavian cars use daytime running lights.

Sorry I disagree with you, if some car has attracted your attention with its lights on, surely that's a good thing.

My point is that it's perfectly visible without the lights on... I agree that, for example, an autumnal dusk in the rain is a situation where lights should be on, but is it really necessary in the middle of a sunny day?

Yes, Scandinavian cars do use daytime running lights; but before they existed did we have endless cases of Volvos and SAABs being crashed into because people couldn't see them?

Cubic

In a similar vein to the above, Range Rover drivers who fly down the fast lane of the motorway with their lights on.

Wunnunda

Get used to DRLs. I believe that they will be mandatory on all new cars soon.
Which means, of course, that they will become 'wallpaper' and lose their effectiveness.

Ron Stuart

You guys may have missed the real problem with vehicle lights, sure there is no problem with dipped headlights daytime, dusk, nighttime and general poor visibility conditions. What is a major problem is:-

A car with fogs front and/or rear and headlights in anything other than fog, mainly because they so distract from cars nearby with no lights all and the glare from the over dressed lights so distracts from the no lights cars/cyclists that you can easily miss the no lights cars/cyclists altogether. Also in drizzle/rain they distract very much from the rear brake lights.

Remember the Police can stop you for using fogs in anything other than poor visibility, although and like mobile phones there are tens upon thousands that simply ignore this law. Shame the Police don't seem to be much interested in the numbties that drive around at dusk/poor visibility with no frigging lights at all. :roll:

Sorry, this maybe isn't trivial.

dylanfernley

De Sisti wrote:

Use of the phrase: At the end of the day. Ultimately, sounds better imo.

Absolutely !

Ron Stuart

dylanfernley wrote:

De Sisti wrote:

Use of the phrase: At the end of the day. Ultimately, sounds better imo.

Absolutely !

Rather..... old boy..... simply.... bang-on :!:

pollys_bott

Wunnunda wrote:

Get used to DRLs. I believe that they will be mandatory on all new cars soon.

I heard that too - but why? What is the logic behind and justification for them? Has homo sapiens regressed to a point where he is now unable to see a feckin' great Discovery / X5 / Q3 etc etc unless it's lit up like a Christmas tree? Not trying to start an argument, am just genuinely curious as to why they have suddenly been deemed essential..? :?

Ron Stuart

Pollys Bott wrote:

Wunnunda wrote:

Get used to DRLs. I believe that they will be mandatory on all new cars soon.

I heard that too - but why? What is the logic behind and justification for them? Has homo sapiens regressed to a point where he is now unable to see a feckin' great Discovery / X5 / Q3 etc etc unless it's lit up like a Christmas tree? Not trying to start an argument, am just genuinely curious as to why they have suddenly been deemed essential..? :?

Try this..... http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/sa ... ights.html

bompington

In the spirit of this thread, I would point out that it's not a matter of lights on cars or not, it's all the traffic getting in my way, almost every vehicle being driven by idiots with vastly inferior driving skills to myself.

dylanfernley

bompington wrote:

In the spirit of this thread, I would point out that it's not a matter of lights on cars or not, it's all the traffic getting in my way, almost every vehicle being driven by idiots with vastly inferior driving skills to myself.

Absolutely! yah

capt_slog

Pollys Bott wrote:

David Beckham. Who gives a sh!t if he leaves LA Galaxy?



Commercial radio stations that play the same 15 songs four times a day and have items like "David Beckham has threatened to stop flying with British Airways" as their news headlines (also see above).

I feel much better now, thankyou... :-)

Just the "Beckhams", full stop. The pair were made for the word trivia and just the sight of either of them makes my blood boil.


That bloody advert for some sort of aftershave......
"would you like her to repeat the question?" (would you like her to say it more s-l-o-w-l-y so that you can keep up?). "I'm not going to be the man I'm expected to be any more". What a load of pretentious twaddle.

BelgianBeerGeek

Ron Stuart wrote:

Pollys Bott wrote:

Wunnunda wrote:

Get used to DRLs. I believe that they will be mandatory on all new cars soon.

I heard that too - but why? What is the logic behind and justification for them? Has homo sapiens regressed to a point where he is now unable to see a feckin' great Discovery / X5 / Q3 etc etc unless it's lit up like a Christmas tree? Not trying to start an argument, am just genuinely curious as to why they have suddenly been deemed essential..? :?

Try this..... http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/sa ... ights.html

Cos if it prevents maybe just one RTC then that's the justification, right there. This isn't really trivial, but it is really annoying and a pervasive feature of modern life. If something can maybe prevent one accident or injury then this is the course we must all take! Grrr :x

Patterdale-Terrorist

'Dialled in'

and

'Ridden in anger' with reference to bikes